Product Description: Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the necessary contexts for mutual tolerance and shared respect between and within different groups in society...read more

Islamic Spirituality: Theology and Practice for the Modern World examines and explores the inner dimension of Islam. The writings of important figures in the historical development of Islamic spirituality are examined, as well as the major sources of religious authority in Islam, the Qur'an and Hadith. Both classical Sufis and Sufism are explored as well as contemporary mystics. Key figures discussed include medieval Islamic theologian al-Ghazali (d.1111), and Said Nursi (d.1960), arguably one of the most important modern theologians in the Islamic spiritual tradition. Discussing both historical and contemporary dimensions of Islamic spirituality allows the author to ground classical Sufi texts in contemporary ideas and practices. Exploring spirituality in relation to key contemporary issues such as ecology, Zeki Saritoprak demonstrates how, when, and where people can practice Islamic spirituality in the Modern world. Providing an overview of the intellectual and theological basis of Islamic spirituality, and including the author's own translations of a selection of key texts, this volume is ideal reading for courses exploring Islamic spirituality and mysticism and anyone interested in the spiritual practices of nearly a quarter of the world's population.

Product Description: Shared ritual practices, multi-faith celebrations, and interreligious prayers are becoming increasingly common in the USA and Europe as more people experience religious diversity first hand. While ritual participation can be seen as a powerful expression of interreligious solidarity, it also carries with it challenges of a particularly sensitive nature...read more

Product Description: The hagiographic materials from the world's religions can tell us much about the beliefs and practices of the people, yet the limited degree to which hagiography has been used as an instrument for understanding diverse religious traditions is surprising...read more

Product Description: Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey critically analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and institutions from the West to Turkey. Through an ethnographic investigation of the newly established tobacco market, Ebru Kayaalp considers how they are being adopted and transformed in their new settings...read more

What do most Muslims believe in today and how have these theological beliefs been understood throughout the intellectual history of Islam? These are the questions that The Muslim Creed: A Theological Study seeks to answer. Dr Amjad Hussain presents a concise introduction to what Muslims believe in and practice, and also why they continue to do so in the twenty-first century. The work is divided into three parts: an introduction to Islamic creed and theology, including discussions of the schools of the Ash'ariyya and the Maturidiyya; the articles of faith and theology; and the future of Islamic theology. The reader is given an overview of the intellectual history of Islamic theology and an insight into contemporary Islamic theology through the six articles of the Islamic faith: God, the angels, the prophets and messengers, the sacred scriptures and the divine decree. It raises the subject of the future of Islamic theology and makes a genuine contribution to this debate.

Product Description: Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights, or slavery, Muslims today are expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is-or is not. But little opportunity exists, either in the media or in society as a whole, to describe Islam...read more

Product Description: All praise be to Allah Ta’ala the Lord and Master of the worlds, Who through His infinite mercy, eternal grace, and unending benevolence has bestowed upon His servants limitless favours and bounties. The most significant of these favours is the gift of Islam...read more

Product Description: INTRODUCTION Allah Ta’ala, through His wisdom and mercy, has given Man the ability to work and earn. Yet, we see around us the phenomenon of prosperity and poverty intertwined. One may ask as to why this is, and what purpose it serves...read more

Product Description: This book comes into existence for the sole purpose of illuminating the masses, those within and without Islam about the concepts in Islam related to two interrelated topics: sex and marriage. As interrelated as they may be in effect, whereas Islam seems to hold marriage in the highest regard, a certain stigma seems to have attached to sex...read more

Product Description: INTRODUCTION Prayer (Salah) is the most important pillar of Islam. Indeed it is the dividing line between Islam and infidelity. Salah is a duty incumbent on every Muslim, male or female, who has attained the age of maturity and has a sound mind...read more

Product Description: Kitab us-Salat, book of namaz. Prepared by Huseyn Hilmi Isik. Originally distributed and printed by Hakikat kitabevi. Reprinted by Ihya press.

Product Description: Book of Namaz, By Huseyn Hilmi Isik, Prepared for publication by Hakikat Kitabevi This book covers the essentials of Islamic prayer known as as-Salat based on the Hanafi school.

Product Description: A Manual of Islamic Law According to the Hanafi School. Original print by Maktabah Rashedia, reprint by Ihya Press.